Omega1234

So sorry for your loss sherry

My sympathies. Sherrie.  I just went through your log what an inspiration.  You picked a complex and difficult vessel and have done a fantastic job building her.  I doubt if I would have the courage to tackle such a project.  Kudos to a wonderful build.
David B

Dear Sherrie
 
My deepest sympathies, Sherrie.
 
These are difficult times and I wish you and your family my sincerest condolences.   Please look after yourself and your family.  Take care.
 
Patrick

Sherry I'm so sorry for your loss. Thank you so much for responding to my question.
 
Thanks
 
Greg

very nice Progress Michael,
 
I would also leave the brass as is..., perhaps a clear varnish over it for protection only
 
Nils

It is a great pleasure to know you back on pilot's workshop! - all the more as this workshop is so very inspiring concerning my own work - thanks Michael!
 
All the best,
Mike

Many thanks for your word Patrick,
 
Nils

I recognize those parts... I have them on the floor of the garage where I am restoring my 67 Barracuda.
 
should be an easy fix and not too expensive
 
HAHAHAHA hopefully
 
Omar

Hi Panagiotis
 
Marvellous work and congratulations on a truly beautiful model. You've got to be really chuffed with it!
 
I'd also imagine that your ship generated a fair bit of interest during the exhibition, especially seeing as it's a Greek warship.
 
Additionally, like you, I'm keen to see the water shots, so, hopefully it'll be a quick winter.
 
All the best!
 
Patrick

Chippy? Patrick, Nils, Steve, and Grant, thank you for your encouragement, Thanks to all who added a like.
 
Today I painted the posts and knees for the winch, I used some "Polly Scale" model railroad  Reefer White, it has a nice dull sheen to it not quite flat and not gloss. I left the side that the chain winds on plain wood, it will get some linseed oil on it a little later.
 

 
I have also begun re assembling other pieces of critical hardware in order to put the mast back up. After a year I am having to do a little deep remembering..... you know how that goes. I am struggling with the issue of do I colour the brass or leave it brass. I am tempted to mostly just let it naturally tarnish, with those elements that would normally remain bright because of their normal use.
 

 
While waiting for the paint to dry I also embarked on an organizing journey of 3 1/2 years of pictures of this build and set up some new categories for the folders, so instead of them being in just date order folders I am grouping the photographs into the relevant areas of the construction elements.
 
A few of the folders for instance; Blocks, Frames,decks, mast and spars, painting, etc once they are relocated into the general categories it will be much easier to find specific images instead of searching through the dates.... did I make that in May 2013 or was it Feb of 2014 if you get my drift.
 
Michael

Hi Nils
 
The more I look, the more I see.
 
Marvellous work!
 
Cheers
 
Patrick

Hi Panagiotis
 
Marvellous work and congratulations on a truly beautiful model. You've got to be really chuffed with it!
 
I'd also imagine that your ship generated a fair bit of interest during the exhibition, especially seeing as it's a Greek warship.
 
Additionally, like you, I'm keen to see the water shots, so, hopefully it'll be a quick winter.
 
All the best!
 
Patrick

...
 
 
 
 
Thank you
 
 
 
 
 
 

Build Log 13  -  Cargo cranes
 
Thanks to all who looked in, and for the compliments that I am not sure I deserve.  During construction it felt like I was just muddling through, taking shortcuts that a truly dedicated modeler would avoid.  This is the curse of the commissioned model – it has to get done without spending the rest of my life on it.  Glad you liked the results, though.
 
Next to be detailed was the cargo deck at the bow.  This area contains two deck houses which are mostly companionways and for ventilation; two raised cargo hatches with multi-part covers; and two cargo cranes with four booms and four corresponding winches for the lifting cables.
 
Here is how it looks on the deck plans:
 

 
Photos of the area and the cranes are surprisingly scarce.  With several upper decks looking over the working area I expected to find many photos, as I have seen with other ships.  In fact, I found none of any detail or resolution from that angle.  This is the best that I found, taken from above during the sinking, so I just went with what I could figure out.
 

 
The deck houses are basswood sheathed with plastic, the portholes are my usual tiny grommets, and the watertight doors are photoetched aftermarket items.  The raised cargo hatches are simple wooden platforms topped with plastic sheet.  The hatch seams are scribed into the plastic after painting.  The eight winches are Scott style and are cleaned up and detailed Bluejacket castings.  All of the structures and fittings got margin plank strips in the usual way.
 

 
These are the best photos that I could find of the cranes themselves and the cargo booms.  Not a great deal of detail, but I puzzled out what I could and made educated guesses for the rest. 
 
Based on the number of cables running from the pulleys it looks like the cargo masts are fitted with a single block near the top that connects to a single block on the upper end of the boom.  A similar single block is under the end of the boom, whose cable runs below the boom to a block on the mast near the deck.
 

 
Here is the result.  The booms were built up from brass rod slid through a sleeve of brass tube.  Holes were drilled in the rods near the outer ends for the twisted wire strops of the cargo blocks, also Bluejacket castings.  The booms attach to the mast with a pair of linked eyebolts that allow movement in all directions.
 

 
The mast is a brass tube with a wooden dowel through it.  This allowed me to insert a sturdy brass rod in the bottom to secure it to the deck, and to taper the upper end as seen in the photos.  Three narrow brass bands were sliced off and attached to the mast tube.  These support the photoetched ladder that you can just see mounted on the inner side of the mast.  Plastic support lugs were shaped and attached as seen in the photos, although I do not know what their use was.  Four single blocks were installed at the top and four double blocks at the bottom. 
 

 
The entire structure was topped with a complicated cap which may have some ventilation purpose, or maybe not.  It was pieced together with three discs punched out from plastic sheet and twelve pieces of styrene strip, six in each layer.
 

 
The masts and booms were primed and painted gloss white before being installed in the center of the crowd of deck winches.  Cable of 0.008 polished threads were run through the pulley blocks and around the barrels of the winch heads. 
 

 
Cradles for the booms were made up from “L” angle strips of styrene with hollows for the tips, then installed on top of the curved deck house and the forward bulwark of the Upper Deck house.  The cables were run loosely until the booms were secured in the cradles, then everything was tightened and trimmed.
 
Given the lack of photos, I’m not completely sure that all the details are correct, but I believe that they are as close as reasonably possible.
 

 
At the stern the cargo hatches are smaller and flush with the decks.  Their locations and sizes are shown on the plans but do not show up on any of the photos that I found.  So I made them simply by running strips of margin plank with mitered corners to define the perimeters of the hatch covers.  No need to fill the centers since the eye cannot resolve such small changes in height.
 

 
The cranes for these hatches are complicated assemblies, but very prominent features, so I could not skimp on them.  They are made up from a wide base with a vertical cylindrical post that supports a second smaller platform.  A winch and electric motor on the base raise the “A” frame arm, while a smaller winch and motor control the lifting cable and hook.  At the front of the base is a platform for the winch controls and an electric panel box.
 

 
Here are the two views from the plans which were used to determine the heights and sizes for the various elements of the crane.
 

 
The base was made up from hardwood pieces with two discs of plastic to raise the base above the lip of the deck perimeter.
 

 
The winches and electric motors were made up from various castings that were cut apart, trimmed and refined before small plastic and wood elements were added to match what I thought I saw in the photos.
 

 
A length of aluminum tube was fitted into the base to make the vertical post, and a platform of thin hardwood was drilled and cut to slide down it.  The winches and motors were added, as was the winch control, another Bluejacket casting.  The electrical box was a tiny bit of wood, as was the fitting that housed to the pulleys at the top of the post.  Sorry that this is not a better photo, but I must have been too busy building the crane to check the focus.
 

 
The base and platforms were painted white, as were the railings, while the post, the motors and winches were silver with green and black details.
 

 
The lifting arms are made of brass rods with two cross-members soldered between them to make a strong unit.
 

 
Two other cross members were made up from plastic rod since they would not be under any stress.
 

 
A tripod support, as seen in the photos, was made up from brass wires soldered to a bit of brass strip and painted white.  Cables were run from the winches and a hook hung from the business end.  The final piece was a curved cover for the pulley sheaves at the top of the post.
 

 
Here is this one finished and installed as seen from the other angle.
 
    
 
And here are the four as they look on the completed model.
 

 
Not too many segments left.  The end is in sight.
 
Dan
 
 

Well, again I arrived too late..
It is difficult to find colour photos made by the passengers to help you, but the original brochures were filled of colour photos.
Below there is a link of a website where almost all the pages of the commercial brochure of the Andrea Doria are showed.
The photos are almost all colour ones.
Some (interesting?) colour photos of the pool too...
 
http://lmcshipsandthesea.blogspot.it/2013/10/andrea-doria-and-cristoforo-colombo.html
 
In anycase, you are doing a very marvellous work!

Cristiano - 
 
Thanks so much for pointing me to the site.  The brochure confirmed that most of what I built is pretty accurate, so there is nothing that I have to rip out and replace.  I have bookmarked the site and will certainly refer back to it when I do my next ocean liner.
 
Dan

Dan again the model details are very interesting. Your comments about our eyes filling in what we perceive to be actually there, is one of the most intriguing aspects of all our work building models, in both this and other areas of model work. I believe that it also applies to many other aspects of art both visual and written. We often forget what incredible gifts we humans are endowed with, not the least our incredibly creative minds.
 
Michael 

Sherry your ship is beautiful! How did you cut the wood strips for the planking?
 
Greg

Ahh never boring in my life ... After 10 years without serious malfunction, my car suddenly needs immediate repairing after 200.000 km ... 
 
You know this feeling - easy driving aprox. speed 100 km/h on highway, starting accelerate to bypassing slower car in front of you, add some force on gas pedal, and ... engine start roaring but speed not following sound ... and you accelerate very very very slow even in regular way your car can jump to 120  km/h in a few seconds  ... unpleasant happening with gooseflesh on neck and something unwanted in stomach ... I do not need this kind of entertainment 
 
Little mathematics
 
regular periodical service
 
+
 

 
+
 
some twittering under hood which appears in un-regular and unexpected time
 
=
 
250-400€
 
Huh
 
And about 4-6 hours, maybe whole day waiting in service to finish repairing
 
What to do? Cash on sun light, boy !!! Money or death !!!!
 
In my life circumstances and for a job purpose, I can not live/work without car, so ... 
 
And the winter is coming ...

Nenad, what failed? The transmission ? Clutch ??? I don't recognize the parts in picture.

Transmision, I have to replace complet

Ouch !  I had to do that some years back on a car with a lot less mileage than 100,000 Km. Not fun ! Hope yours is repair quickly.

Tomorrow at 9am, I reserved termin in service which takes care of my car all 10 years

Transmission's probably OK Nenad. The parts in the picture are the clutch-disc and pressure-plate. Just replace those, the thrust-bearing, and adjust the clutch properly, you should be fine.  I've fixed many in my time. Trust me.   Unless you heard a lot of grinding or banging, the transmission should be fine. 

You are right George ... My English again ... And stuppid google translate do not recognize serbian words "kvačilo" "korpa" and "lamela". Transmision ( in serbian " menjač" litteraly - changer) is still perfect, soft, precise, and considering I drive soft, do not force car over 3000-3500 rounds and not burn engine, it will last long